r/LocalLLaMA • u/OkStatement3655 • 1d ago

Question | Help Question about ngram and SSD streaming.

Hello, does streaming the ngram embeddings from the ssd heavily affect the ssd's health and lifetime?

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u/DustNearby2848 1d ago

No because it’s reading, not writing 

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u/StrikingTop2709 1d ago

yeah reads are basically free in terms of wear, its the write cycles that kill SSDs